Cubs threw 1918 World Series?

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Was going to post this today and didn't get around to it.

Organized crime and gambling was rampant back in the day. MLB even in the early 20th century tried to pretend that busting the Black Sox was enough to end the shenanigans. It'll never be known for sure, but I'm certain that the Black Sox were not an isolated incident.
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NYYVol said:
Was going to post this today and didn't get around to it.

Organized crime and gambling was rampant back in the day. MLB even in the early 20th century tried to pretend that busting the Black Sox was enough to end the shenanigans. It'll never be known for sure, but I'm certain that the Black Sox were not an isolated incident.
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This. Guys made no money, id imagine they'd make 5-6 years pay throwing it.
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JTrainDavis said:
This. Guys made no money, id imagine they'd make 5-6 years pay throwing it.
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It's still a shame how those players from the Black Sox were treated and how history remembers them. For the money that they received in comparison to what they made, I would have done the same damn thing.

And for the record, Shoeless Joe didn't throw the Series.
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If they would've known they'd still be titleless almost 100 years later, they might not have thrown it.
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Vol_til_I_die said:
If they would've known they'd still be titleless almost 100 years later, they might not have thrown it.
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That hurt a little haha. GO CUBS!

But to the OP it would not surprise me at all if this is true. Like everyone has said the players were making little to no money back then and if a quick BIG payday was offered, I would not be surprised if they took it.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
I was surprised no one had posted it yet. I thought it'd make for an interesting conversation.
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I can remember my Grandfather getting fighting angry when folks would talk about the Black Sox. He always said it was more widespread than MLB let on.
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Curse smurse......the Red Sox were supposedly cursed as well. How's that worked out the last 10 years?
 
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NYYVol said:
And for the record, Shoeless Joe didn't throw the Series.
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By all contemporary accounts, Jackson was about as stupid as a sack of baseballs. It's impossible to know for sure, but the simplest explanation seems to be that he took the money and then didn't actually participate in the fix.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
By all contemporary accounts, Jackson was about as stupid as a sack of baseballs. It's impossible to know for sure, but the simplest explanation seems to be that he took the money and then didn't actually participate in the fix.
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That's the most logical explanation. My thinking is if he threw the Series with those numbers he put up, he'd singlehandedly won it without throwing it.

Dude was dumb, but loved to play the game. It's sad how his playing career ended and the way he bounced around in the aftermath.
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NYYVol said:
That's the most logical explanation. My thinking is if he threw the Series with those numbers he put up, he'd singlehandedly won it without throwing it.

Dude was dumb, but loved to play the game. It's sad how his playing career ended and the way he bounced around in the aftermath.
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Some people have pointed out that he hit relatively poorly in the games that the Sox lost, and he apparently muffed a few plays in the outfield in the games that they lost, but for him to have played well in the wins and poorly in the losses would seem to require a level of cunning that Jackson was probably too, ah, unsophisticated to have pulled off.

I'm no expert, but it sure seems to me like some guys just gave him some money without him really understanding what he was getting into, and then he just went out there and played baseball. I wouldn't normally cut somebody that much slack but there seems to be agreement that Jackson was REALLY dumb.
 
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